May Unit Test -50 Marks 12th Eng with Solutions
M.R.CITI SR.SEN.PUBLIC SCHOOL BALACHAUR - Set-A
Class- 12 paper- English
Time : 2hours
Maximum Marks : 50
General Instructions :
Section A
READING SKILLS -10 Marks
1. This paper is divided into three sections, A, B, and C.
2. Separate instructions are given for each section and question. Read them carefully and follow them.
3. Do not exceed the prescribed word limit while answering the questions.
Q1- Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions
The suspense ended when my high school results finally came out. But he was upset. He hadn’t done as well as he’d hoped. My father tried to comfort me. “Why are you worried? You’ve done very well, my dear.” “No, I haven’t, Baba,” I protested, fighting my tears and wondering if I had let him down. What did I get when I finished high school?” I looked at Baba’s face and waited for the answer to his own question. “You know,” he said. “I never told you this. I only have a third division. did quite well.” Baba got a third division! I was almost in shock, but the thought of having done so much better made me realize that I had no reason to complain. I certainly felt better! “Everything is under control said Baba, smiling. That was his favorite phrase. Posted in Calcutta, my father was then a senior civil servant in the Indian Railway Service and an expert in freight traffic operations. Railways When he retired in 1981, he was general manager of Cen tral Railways. When Baba passed away in November 2000, his name had also found a place in many hearts. He was open, easy to get to know and full of life. We were very close, but I had a lot more to learn about him than a lot of things I came to know after his death.
In September 2000, he was in the hospital for cancer treatment and had only two months to live. When he found out, his reaction was extremely rational. He asked me to find files in his closet so he could explain the details of my mother’s pension. He also dictated her will from his hospital bed. “It’s all under control !” After Baba’s death, Satish, our former family servant, was heartbroken. We try to cheer him up. “Your Baba had scolded me only once in all these years!” he yelled he. Satish pointed to the watch on his left hand. “He was late for work and everyone in the family was complaining,” Satish said. “Then one day your Baba gave me this watch and said, ‘Now that you have a watch, you can’t be late.'” That was the scolding Satish received. On the fourth day after Baba’s death, my sister and I had to perform a ceremony. As several relatives
were expected, we decided to order lunch from a caterer in our town, famous for its homemade food. But, when we went to pay the owner, we got a surprise. He refused to accept money! “When I wanted to start my catering business, it was your father who lent me money,” he told us. It seems that Baba never asked him. Now, after four or five years, the catering company wanted to pay off that debt. Of course we made him accept full payment for the excellent food and service. ‘It was Baba’s gift and must remain so,’ I told him.
A few days later, there was more information as we prepared for the main ceremony. Vikram, my brother took me to the local market. Recognizing our car, the parking attendant, in his twenties, came running up to us and asked why he hadn’t seen his owner in a long time. We had to break the news to him and to our surprise he started crying. We were really surprised by this reaction from a stranger, until the man told us that Baba used to pay his daughter’s school fees and buy her books. Apparently, it was on my father’s advice that he even started sending the boy to school. More than three years after Baba’s death, while going through Baba’s personal belongings, we found an old file with Baba’s certificates and found among them, his high school diploma from 1937, the one he had told me some 30 years before. , about the third division that had not made any difference in his life or career.
He had made me see beyond mere grades and first classes as the main path to success. But there was one more fact. In fact, Baba had achieved a first division, a rare achievement in his time. Today, years after his passing, when I think of Baba, I see a man who was able to sympathize with others so easily and touch their lives in such a special way.
Based on your understanding of the passage, answer questions from the nine given below:
1x10=10
Question: (1) Why did the narrator’s sick father want her to fetch files from his cupboard ?
Question: (2) Why did Baba buy Satish a watch ?
Question: (3) Why did the caterer not want to take money from the narrator ?
Question: (4) Why were the narrator and her brother surprised on meeting the parking assistant ?
Question: (5) Today years after his passing away what has the narrator realized about her Baba ?
Question: (6) What was the story that Baba had invented on the day the narrator’s results were published ?
Question-
(1) Why was the narrator in tears when her school results came out?
(i) She did better than she expected.
(ii) She did not do as expected.
(iii) Her Baba had not done well.
(iv) Her Baba had done better than her.
(2) On knowing the result, how did the narrator’s father react?
(i) He scolded her.
(ii) He beat her.
(iii) He consoled her.
(iv) He made fun of her.
(3) Why did the narrator say that she had nothing to complain?
(i) She had done better than her father.
(ii) She had done as well as her father.
(iii) She had topped in her school.
(iv) She had not worked hard at all.
(4) Choose the option that is not correct.
(i) Baba was a senior official in the Indian Railway Service.
(ii) Baba was to become a director with the Railway Board.
(iii) Baba was the general manager of the Central Railways.
(iv) Baba had got a third division in high school.
Section -B
Writing Skills (10 Marks)
Q2. Yogendra Singh, the secretary of Roop Vihar Welfare Society,Surat, Write a notice in about 50 words inviting all the members of the society to attend a meeting to discuss Janmashtami celebrations.1x5=5
Q 3 Write a letter to the Editor of National Herald, New Delhi about water scarcity in your locality suggesting ways to improve the position of water supply. You are Ramnath/ Reema of Ghaziabad.1x5=5
Section- C Literature (30 M)
Q4.Read the extract carefully and answer the following questions
"I remember a story a man from Udipi once told me. As a young boy he would go to school past an old temple, where his father was a priest. He would stop briefly at the temple and pray for a pair of shoes. Thirty years later I visited his town and the temple, which was now drowned in an air of desolation. In the backyard, where lived the new priest, there were red and white plastic chairs. A young boy dressed in a grey uniform, wearing socks and shoes, arrived panting and threw his school bag on a folding bed. Looking at the boy, I remembered the prayer another boy had made to the goddess when he had finally got a pair of shoes, "Let me never lose them." The goddess had granted his prayer.1x5=5
a) Where is Udipi located in India?
I)Karnataka ii) Uttar Pradesh
iii)Madhya Pradesh iv)Chennai
b) What does lost spring mean?
I)Lost childhood ii)Lost youth
iii) Lost old age iv)None of these
c) What would the boy pray for?
I)For a good school
ii)For pair of shoes
iii)For pair of chappals
iv)All of these
d) Name the author of this chapter.
I)Anees Jung ii)Selma Lagerlof
iii) Virginia Woolf iv)None of these
e) What do you mean by panting?
i) speaking ii) walking
iii) breathing quickly iv) crying
Q5.Read the extract carefully and answer the following questions
1x5=5
'looked but soon
put that thought away, and
looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes'
(a)What did the narrator realize? How did she feel?
(b) What did she do then? (c) What did she see outside?
(d) Find words from the passage which mean (i) Running fast (ii) Happy
(e)Name the poem and the poet.
Q6. Answer the following questions in about 25-40 words 2x5=10
a)Mention the hazards of working in the glass bangle industry.
b)Why can't bangle makers of Ferozabad organize into a cooperative?.
c)Why is the poet's mother compared to the late winter's moon?
d)What did Franz notice that was unusual about the school that day?
e)Do you think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charlie? Why?
Q 7A.Answer the following questions in about 50-60 words
What could be some of the reasons for the migration of people from villages to cities?
Or
Write the summary of poem My Mother at Sixty Six 1x5=5
B..what is Charlie's strange experience at Grand Central Station?
Or
Compare and contrast the character of Charlie and Sam Weiner 1x5=5
Answer
Set- A May Test - 50 Marks
Compression
Set-A Solutions
Q1.
1 .Narrator’s father wanted her to fetch files from his cupboard so that he could explain the details of narrator's mother's pension
2. Baba bought a watch to Satish so that he cannot be late for work.
3. The caterer does not want to take money from narrator in order to pay the debt that narrator's father lent him.
4. When the narrator and her brother meet the parking assistant they told him about Baba's death then the assistant starts crying they both were surprise to see this. He was crying because Baba used to pay his daughter school fees and buy her books.
5. After passing away, the narrator realized that her father was a man who was able to sympathize with others so easily and touch their lives in such a special way she also has realization about his father's first division
6. The story that baba had invented on the day of narrators result is about baba.3rd division in High School which made no difference in his life and career.
MCQ
1(.II) she did not do as expected
2.iii. he consoled her
3.i she had done better than her father
4.ii.. Baba was to become a director with the railway board
Q2.
Notice
Yogendra Singh d secretary of Roop Vihar welfare Society, Surat write a notice inviting all the members of society to attend the meeting to discuss Janmashtami celebration
Answer
Q3.Letter to the editor of national herald New Delhi about water scarcity in your locality
Answer
522, Railway Colony
Ghaziabad
27th April 20××
The Editor
National Herald,
New Delhi
Subject : Poor Water Supply
Sir,
Through the columns of your reputed newspaper, I wish to draw your attention towards the water supply in our colony. There is a great scarcity of water in our colony. We’re supplied water for only 3-4 hours per day. The pressure at that time is so low that it is very difficult to finish the chores in time. Moreover, sometimes the water supplied is dirty and unclean. Most of the times, there is a power-cut also during the same hours when the water is supplied which affects us a lot.
Yours
Faithfully
Name……
Q4. Extract
Remember I story Aman from Udipi the ………..goddess had granted his prayer
Ans.
a.i Karnataka
b.i. lost childhood
c.ii for pair of shoes
d.i. Anees Jung
e.iii. breathing quickly
Q5. Extract
Looked but soon….out of their homes
Ans.
A.Narrator was disappointed to see the falling health of her mother.
B.Poetess diverted her mind, looking out of the window
C. She saw the sprinting trees and children coming out of their homes.
D.running fast - sprinting
Happy - merry
E. My mother At Sixty Six by Kamla Das
Q6. Answer the following questions in about 25 -40 words
A) Mention the hazards of working in glass bangle industry
The workers often end up blind if they are exposed to the work for many years. The furnaces are set in extremely elevated temperatures and lack proper ventilation. Since most of the workers are poor, they work without protective eye gear and leaves them blind.
B) why can't bangle makers of Firozabad organised into a cooperative?
The bangle makers could not organise themselves into a cooperative because they were trapped in the vicious circle of sahukars, middlemen, policemen, up bureaucrats and politicians. If they tried to organise themselves, they would be beaten by up the police and put in jail.
C) Why is the poet's mother compared to the late winter's moon?
The poet's mother has been compared to the late winter's moon to bring out the similarity of ageing and decay. The late winter moon looks hazy and obscure. It lacks shine and strength. The poet's mother has an 'ashen' face resembling a corpse.
D) write to qualities of Franz and Sam
Sam is also portrayed as a typical city boy who is affected by the fast-paced modern world. He expresses a desire to escape to the peaceful town of Galesburg, which indicates that he is feeling overwhelmed by the pressures
Franz receives a big shock when he learns that this is his last lesson in French. He is shocked because he does not know French. Furthermore, on learning about the last lesson, a sudden interest arises in him for learning French. Moreover, he pays careful attention and learns everything taught on this last day.
E. What do you mean by first day cover?
Stamp collectors buy new stamps on the day they are released, paste them on letters, and mail them to their own address; when the letter arrives at their house with the postmark and the date, they save it in their collection. This type of letter is known as a first-day cover.
Q7 A what could be some of the reason for the migration of people from villages to cities
There are many factors that cause migration of people from villages to cities. Some villagers voluntarily move to the cities in search for jobs and better civic and health facilities etc. Others are forced to migrate when natural disasters like flood storm drought famine etc. destroy their houses and properties.
Or
Summary of my mother At Sixty Six
The poetess realized, her mother had grown very old. She shuddered at the thoughts that passed her mind at that time. The painful thoughts about her mother's imminent death haunted her mind. She tried to divert her mind by looking out of the car.
B. Character sketch of M.Hamel
He was very honest, patriotic and hard working person. He believed that French was the clearest and logical language. He knew that was his last day in the school, yet he performed his duties seriously and taught his last lesson in the class with great patience which shows how dutiful he was towards his duties.
Or
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